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[Addressed to the lady or gentleman who had abstracted two / pictures from the Royal Academy.]
My friend, why did you hold your hand, / Why falter, why desist, / When there are treasures in the land / That never would be missed? / Next time you plunder the R. A., / Its precincts do not quit / Till you have made, as plumbers say, / A thorough job of it. / Take ev'ry so-called work of art / And (with a nation's thanks) depart!